A writer’s view of a favourite artist’s best and least favourite album
This feature is the equivalent of those items on social media. The ones where you can only pick one artist to see live or listen to one album forever. They always include Queen, Bowie and Prince, […]
I first saw Billy Bragg play live on 30 December 1984 at the Lyceum Ballroom in the Strand in London. I used to be able to recall all the times I’d seen him perform but I […]
Richmond Fontaine was formed in Portland, Oregon, in 1994 and recorded eleven studio albums, four live albums and two EPs before calling it a day in 2016. There were various personnel in that time, but the […]
It’s a little tricky trying to make this feature work for Lynn Miles, partly because her albums are almost all universally excellent, filled with songs about affairs of the heart in one form or another (and […]
As I discovered, when seeking to identify a “best of” or the “essential,” the quest becomes increasingly elusive the longer I think about the possibilities. Therefore, I begin with a caveat that if sounding dangerously like […]
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